Friday, 13 August 2010

SharePoint 2010 Software Licencing

Rough idea of pricing excluding VAT. This is not from Microsoft and pricing is not fixed as I have laid it out in this post. Saying that, please consult a licencing expert most resellers such as HP have licencing experts to help you, this is merely a guide to help you get started. Without further procrastination ...

Windows 2008 & SharePoint is priced on a per server basis. SQL is charged at a per processor licence. Software assurance is about and additional 28-30/year.

Windows 2008 R2 standard x64 - £2,5k

SharePoint Std Internet - 5,5K ?

SharePoint Ent Internet - 20K ?

SharePoint Std Internal - 3K ?

SharePoint Ent Internal - ?

SharePoint Std CAL £45/cal

SharePoint Ent CAL £80/cal

SQL 2008 R2 Std/proc £3,5k

SQL 2008 R2 Ent/Proc £14k

Software Assurance: MS sell software assurance, this entitles you to upgrade over the period of the SA agreement charged at about 30% per year. If the new version of the product is due for release and you will move to the new version in the next year or 2, Software assurance may be a good option. However as SP2010 has just been re4lease and SharePoint 15 is due some time in 2014, the cost of SA for that period would be more than buying the SP15 software (assuming prices stay the same). It is a per circumstances decision but I would opt to buy the SP2010 without SA, in 2014 buy new licences and the cost will most likely be lower for the upgrade and it will allow for a in-place upgrade (I.e. SP2010 and SP2014 would run next to each other until everything is upgraded). I would personally prefer to do the upgrade as it will keep the systems cleaner, have better performance and allow for a safer upgrade. Also not you can use Enterprise agreements and stop paying SA but the key if to look at minimising the cost of SharePoint licences over a 5 or 6 year period.

Note: As you can see you have to pay for 4 server licences on 2 servers. Those astute people out there may realise that you could add 2 more SP 2010 servers to your farm without paying for and more SP licences. Only think is you need to then only allow internal access on the Internal servers and Internet access to the external SP server.

Development Licences
Technet covers all development licences you will need with the exception of Visual Studio. MSDN licencing includes Visual Studio 2010. Visual Studio Ultimate, & Professinal can be purchase individually or through MSDN.TFS2010 (Team Foundation Server) has 3 ways to get licences: